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   If you can stand

   

   dorpus, May 15th, 2006 @ 6:19am

   
   

   Sure, if you don't mind getting crude oil on you, which doesn't come off for a month, and people (other than oil industry workers) wouldn't want to be within a block of you. Oh and, you don't mind spending a few years living in places like Saudi Arabia or Nigeria, do you? Beer, talking to women are against the law.

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   Re: If you can stand

   

   angry dude, May 15th, 2006 @ 7:01am

   
   

   Ha-ha-Ha-ah
   
   How about flying first-class around the globe, living in a 5-star hotels all the time, driving compny BMW 7**, sheltering money in a tax-free account, not even seeing damn oil at all and retiring at 50 ?
   
   Crude oil on your clothes ? I should tell this joke to some big oil engineers (not even managers) I know.
   Techdirt is really clueless...

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   dorpus, May 15th, 2006 @ 7:13am

   
   

   My uncle was a petroleum engineer. 5-star hotels throughout the world serve the same low quality cold catered food, first-class flying makes pepto bismol and sleeping pills your best friend, governments throughout the world are cracking down on tax shelter accounts,the funny colognes worn by Arabs or Texans will make you gag, the peer pressure to live and drive recklessly makes most of these guys lose their driving licenses, and they burn out by age 50. (Now he works in the more lucrative international construction industry, where Asian governments spend billions buildings things and tearing them back down to redo it.)

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   Not on your life

   

   Salangoran, May 15th, 2006 @ 8:36am

   
   

   There isn't enough money on this planet to convince me to go to Saudi Arabia again. First class planes, tons of cash, whatever you can dream up: it isn't enough. A bunch of nouveau riche bedouins who scream "sex = bad! alcohol = bad! gambling = bad!" and then speed off to Qatar, Bahrain or the U.A.E. on the weekend in their gold-plated BMWs to party down with the Russian prostitutes, play a few 'games,' and chug-a-lug a brewski or two. Meanwhile, the poor Saudis (which is everybody who isn't somehow related to the king) are living in the 3rd century.
   
   Unreal. Never again.

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   Hmmm... Bio-fuels, anyone?

   

   Howard, May 15th, 2006 @ 9:13am

   
   

   Commerical biodiesel has been around $3/gallon for a long time, and now, all of a sudden, it's cost-competitive with dinodiesel. As dinofuels get progressively more expensive to produce, cleaner-burning alternatives are becoming viable, and I suspect we've recently hit a tipping point.

   The main reason dinofuel is so expensive today is not (believe it or not) US consumption, but rapidly-rising Chinese (and other developing countries) demand. It looks to me like the future is not in petroleum engineering. BIG PLUS - a career in biofuel engineering probably would not involve trips to 14th-century theocracies.

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   Violins and Accessories

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   Been There, Done That

   

   Tim, May 15th, 2006 @ 10:57am

   
   

   Grew up as an oil field brat all over the world, even started my career in a oil company, and yes the money is good. Very good. But the places you find oil these days are the most off the charted path, armpits of the world who would want to live there? That even applies to places in the US - west Texas, Louisiana, middle of nowhere Alaska. The nice thing about the computer industry is I live where I want, and where my family wants, and heck, I enjoy the global competition that comes along with it.

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   worker Computer oprater

   

   Muhammad Ismail, Jun 11th, 2006 @ 10:31pm

   
   

   dear sir.
   i hop you will be fine.
   i have bachlare degry holder in university of pakistan
   but no job please any vecency u r compney please adujust me.
   thanks
   ISMAIL

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   Re: cologne

   

   charlie potatoes, Jun 19th, 2006 @ 6:22am

   
   

   Fuck you, Doofus.

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   everyone else

   

   charlie potatoes, Jun 19th, 2006 @ 6:25am

   
   

   wait a sec...FUCK YOU, TOWEL HEAD...now i feel better.

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    needs to jobs

    

    imran, Aug 22nd, 2006 @ 4:43am

    
    

    i nee to jobs.
    hand work experance of computer hardware and computer software.

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